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  • Goldman Sachs’ chief economist just downgraded the entire U.S. economy as Trump’s latest tariff salvo rattles markets

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  • I'm looking forward to seeing Indian tech companies outsourcing their tech work to formerly Elon-employed punks in the US, for pennies on the rupee. The punks are auditioning for it right now, and clearly their work will be shit but at least it'll be cheap.

  • Woman charged with holding 'severely emaciated' stepson in captivity for over 20 years.

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  • 5'9" and 68 lbs, that's just mind-blowing. He's got to be just a skeleton, no fat at all, no muscle left anywhere. I weighed more than that in grade school. I wonder if he can even walk? Holodomor vibes.

    Well, she's decided to prominently display that she's a Christian with that cross there. So I guess we're supposed to understand that she's by definition a Good Person. Give her a slap on the wrist, admonish her to not be naughty, and let her go. Whatever she did is God's Will after all.

  • ‘It’s deeply offensive’: Windsor snowbirds reconsider U.S. travel over new rule

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  • FWIW the term was in common use in Vermont when I was growing up, and was used to refer to Vermonters who wintered anywhere in the U.S. south. It was kind of a generic term though and could have referred to Canadians too, and to people with other southern nesting sites outside of the U.S.

  • RFK Jr. reportedly had a call with Texans helping distribute unproven measles remedies

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  • edit to add: pluto was discovered the same year the diagnostic rules for autism were established, too. so pluto, the planet, causes autism.

    So autistic people are from Pluto? Illegal aliens? Pluto is covered with ICE, that must be how they got here. Deported.

  • DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires

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  • A couple of terms that need to be resurrected and put into common use during this MAGA Occupation:

  • DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires

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  • No need to grind when they have soft, very-white underbellies.

  • Enola Gay, women, Blacks being erased in shocking Pentagon DEI file purge

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  • I might add, this cemetery is about a quarter mile from a VA hospital too, one that's already seeing cuts. Convenient, once the patients get kicked to the curb to die, they can be disposed of quickly and easily.

  • Enola Gay, women, Blacks being erased in shocking Pentagon DEI file purge

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  • I just came back from a walk through a nearby, private cemetery. It's a mix of old and new burials, some dating to the late 1800s. There are a lot of veterans interred there, and yes, some women veterans even! Probably some dark-skinned veterans too. There's a section that contains many graves of Asians. I can't read the writing on the stones but I'd guess Chinese - this was a railroad town back in the day and if I recall my HS history correctly, a lot of Chinese labor was used by the RR industry - yes, immigrants! This town still has a lot of Ukrainians and Russians and eastern Europeans, and the cemetery has a section that has a lot of their graves too.

    I couldn't help but wonder how long before all of the documentation of these people, scant as it may be (just stones), gets erased, flushed right down the Memory Hole. It's a private cemetery but I'm sure there are ways the Musk administration could twist the arms of the board that runs the place. It sounds unthinkable, but until the last week or so, so did the idea of un-documenting a lot of US military history as the article describes.

  • What IDE do you use and why ?

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  • VSCode + Vim keybindings + Metals for Scala development. I used to use IntelliJ (paid and free) + the Scala plug-in, and Pycharm (free). For Scala I'd be fine with either VSCode or Jetbrains, just depends on who is paying (or not paying). I suspect that Python support in VSCode is a lot better these days so it might be a viable option to Pycharm. I need to check out VSCodium, if it works well with Metals and gets frequent updates I might make the switch.

  • What’s a good magazine for interesting thought provoking articles?

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  • Harper's Magazine (not to be confused with Harper's Bazaar). https://harpers.org/ There's Granta for mostly long-form fiction. A quarterly. It's excellent but more like a periodic paperback book than a magazine.

  • Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says

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  • Trouble is, these old folks aren't ready to fight a revolution themselves. You see them at the food pantries and Little Free Pantries already, the better-off with walkers and canes, just a step or two away from being homeless and all the hatred and suffering that that brings.

    Still, for the kids of the old folks, assuming they have any, and assuming they care somewhat for their parents, it could get ugly fast w/o SS and Medicare. Grandpa and Grandma lose their homes and have to move in, all kinds of caretaking and medical bills and old-folks Rxs to pay for, and all that on 1950s America Great Again wages. I'd like to think the pitchforks would come out at that point, but I dunno, people would have to put their phones down and get off their couches.

  • Trump might have to ask foes like Trudeau for emergency eggs

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  • I like it. Maybe mix in some vids by egg influencers on SM showing Canadians frying up some product and sitting down to big plates of omelettes. President Musk and Drumpf could be on TV in the background, red-faced and shrieking and fuming and Nazi-saluting, with the TV sound turned off of course, while the Canadians smile and have 2nds.

  • Google co-founder says 60-hour workweek the ‘sweet spot’ for productivity

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  • Yep, just plug 'em in and they'll work 24x7x52 without a complaint. That's the goal.

    "The race" to AGI is just the race to unemployment and complete subservience to the TechBro super-rich and their ilk.

  • Elon Musk publicly supports call for US to exit NATO, UN

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  • Well after all, what do we need Alaska for? Does it have vast reserves of untapped hair dye, the Stuff Prez. Leon Needs? Don't think so.

  • Vice President JD Vance is skiing in Vermont, and the locals have opinions about that

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  • Yeah, now that eggs are so cheap and all (went to the grocery yesterday and they're rationed here). I haven't checked dog shit prices but that's too good for him anyway.

  • Baumgartner calls on Zelenskyy to resign hours after diplomatic meltdown in Oval Office

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    Federal workers start to get a new email demanding their accomplishments

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  • Both Musk and Trump have claimed that some workers are either dead or fictional, and the president has publicly backed Musk’s approach.

    Addressing people who didn’t respond to the first email, Trump said “they are on the bubble,” and he added that he wasn’t “thrilled” about them not responding.

    Malicious Compliance time. Give Trump something that will "thrill" him.

  • Baumgartner calls on Zelenskyy to resign hours after diplomatic meltdown in Oval Office

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  • "Congressman Michael Baumgartner is currently serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents the people of Washington State’s 5th Congressional District." https://baumgartner.house.gov/about

    He's a MAGA bootlicker and is unfit for office. What an embarrassment to our nation he is.

  • UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

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